Archives for August 2005

I haven’t made it to Norway yet, but I expect it’s a lovely place, so I hesitate in suggesting the U. N. leave NYC and move there. Maybe that’ll cheer up the sad Norwegians. As for me, few things would cheer me more than closing up the UN altogether.

Through this move, Code Pink has acted against George W. Bush via those who carry out his orders. Somehow, they believed–without thinking of human nature and without even the barest understanding of the mindset of those who implement the military objectives of this nation–that their actions would hurt the war effort. This is what passes for planning at Code Pink. They have, however, only served to hinder their own agenda by making themselves look like ghouls and like the types who would only be brave enough to take on soldiers when the latter are injured. I doubt that this was supposed to be part of “Stage Two.”

George Bush didn’t lie to get us into this war. He relied on the intelligence that preceded him.- the UN, Russians, French and Brits all believed Saddam had WMD. The problem was that the intelligence was flawed. Bill Clinton was not responsible for the flawed intelligence- and that intelligence was gathered under his administration. That has been made clear. Grow up.

That is another truth you hate- and that is another reason you need this to be about George Bush.

Who is supporting Cindy Sheehan? The same people who can’t abide George Bush. The same people that refuse to accept the reality that he was elected into office- twice. It isn’t about anti war sentiment- it’s all about politics.

Fenton Communications, a long time liberal PR company, heads up the effort. Ben and Jerry’s Ben Cohen, of True Majority, an organization whose anti Bush stance is it’s raison d’etre, is front and center. MoveOn.org and Code Pink are sponsors, who came into being only because of George Bush- and the efforts to ‘get him’ at all costs.

Mostly, it’s about your hatred of George Bush- and the truth that you don’t care how many more Iraqis die. If they have to die to ‘get’ George Bush, it is a worthy sacrifice.

Meanwhile, a splendid group of economic data points show clearly the effectiveness of the president’s marginal tax-rate reductions of two years ago. The tax-cut package was in large part directed at stock market and business capital formation, both hard hit a few years back. This was the correct target. Share prices have recovered about 70 percent in recent years, with a number of widely tracked indexes, like the NYSE and the S&P small- and mid-cap indexes, now trading at all-time highs. The economy itself is growing at about 4 percent per annum since the tax cuts, with business investment leading the surge.

Breaking down the major components of the economy, business spending on equipment and software is now contributing close to 30 percent of the increase in gross domestic product. (Prior to the Bush tax cuts on capital gains, dividends, and personal incomes, cap-ex was a net drag on economic growth.) The business surge has caused industrial production to rise by nearly 9 percent in the past couple of years, or 4.1 percent annually.

As Kudlow says, “The president has a good story to tell, but he must tell it.”

The Commission on Human Rights’ special investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, is threatening to expand his own brief and refer Britain to the United Nations General Assembly for human rights violations. This is because Britain is preparing plans to deport foreign citizens who engage in “unacceptable behavior” such as encouraging or glorifying terrorism.

The former chairman of Air America Radio, Evan Montvel Cohen – who former colleagues said engineered transfers of more than $800,000 to the liberal radio network from a boys and girls club in the Bronx – is missing, according to a lawyer who is trying to have him served with legal papers.

In my post yesterday, Perspective on Islam in Iraq’s constitution, I argued that Afghanistan has near similar wording in its own constitution and that the mainstream media didn’t harp on it in January 2004. Afghanistan has also not turned into a religious police state like Iran since then. So why is the media barking lunacy over the Iraqi constitution?

Make no mistake, Chávez is moving right ahead in his project to enslave his country and as many Latin American countries as possible under the chain of communism. That’s as undeniable as Pat Robertson’s foolishness.